Rubén Darío

Rubén Darío

 

Rubén Darío, whose real name was Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (1867-1916), was a Nicaraguan poet representative of Hispano-American Modernism. In 1886 he arrived in Chile, attracted by the cultural and intellectual boom of the time, obtaining a position as editor of the newspaper The time from Santiago. Years later, he publishes BLUE (1888), book of stories and poems. From this work, Darío establishes a new literary trend in Chile: Modernism. The aesthetic objective of this movement was the search for beauty as a means of escaping from reality. Among his most outstanding works are Caltrops (1887) Profane prose and other poems (1896) Songs of life and hope. The swans and other poems (1905) and The wandering song (1907)

 


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